Word: owe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bankrupt Australia snatched the crumb. Proud, His Majesty's Government in the Union of South Africa said: "We have informed His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom that South Africa will not take advantage of the offer of the Mother Country to forego payments which we owe on our War debt." [Loud cheers.] Benito Mussolini, with characteristic dynamics, had promptly put his Cabinet busily to work figuring out exactly what was to be done. President Hoover was not surprised. He knew they gave up in German reparations and other debt receipts only a little more than they...
...Fowler and I love and understand each other, but we are not lovers. Do you think I could have been able to leave him if we were lovers? . . . I owe a great deal to Fowler. He is the man who taught me to fight, who sent me first to Zurich [to seek, like his mother, the help of psychoanalysts], when my life was smashed like broken crockery...
...even more so to those of Greece and Rome, the greater part of the American people are the descendants of the barbarians of Northern and Western Europe. Year by year the story of their long but steady prehistoric progress toward the period of written history is becoming clearer. They owe much to the peoples of Central Europe, who had, in turn, ben awakened by the challenge of Near Eastern civilization, How these Eastern stimuli reached Central Europe and just what effect they had there is still not clearly understood, but the Harvard-Pennsylvania expedition will, if it continues its labors...
...married again. Thereafter no star, once wedded, could shine in the Belasco firmament. The suggestion of ruptured romance between Actress Carter and Producer Belasco helped the latter's legend. Successively he discovered, developed, dropped Blanche Bates, Frances Starr, Ina Claire, Lenore Ulrich. Leo Dietrichstein and David Warfield also owe their careers to Producer Belasco. As carefully as he cultivated his famed Anglican clerical costume,* Producer Belasco fostered the properties, attitudes, legends which identified him. At times he was apt to croon about himself and his profession: "I am a mother at heart." At other times he was obsessed with...
...your April 27 issue of TIME, p. 27, under heading of "Church and Land," you state that 99% of the people of Spain owe spiritual allegiance to ROME. This is in its essence incorrect. Spanish women are devout Catholics, and while it is true that the Spaniard lives against a background of eternity and his outlook is more religious than philosophic, spiritual allegiance is a patrimony of the soul, and the soul of a Spaniard belongs to God alone...